Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.